Anthropology Today · 2009 · 23 citations · 13 references
Social SciencesEthnic StudiesInternational RelationsInternational OrganizationsNationalism StudiesSlavic StudiesEthnic IdentityEuropean CitizenshipEuropean IdentityEuropean IntegrationEuropean PoliticsNational IdentityCitizenship IdentityDocumentation PracticesEuropean National IdentityEuropean Political IdentityExplanatory Case StudyNationality DocumentationNationality DocumentsRight To Nationality
Abstract: In this article, I examine some of the social effects that Bulgaria's EU membership has for Macedonia and the meanings that identification documents have for ethnic Macedonians who instrumentalize Bulgarian claims on their Macedonian identity for their own ends. I argue that the case study of Macedonia helps us view identification documents as objects that neither necessarily fix nationality nor are ineluctable guarantees of belonging to the (Bulgarian) nation‐state, and understand state documentation practices as practices that do not always produce determined identities and citizen‐subjects.
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Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State
Anthony P. Cohen · American Ethnologist · 1998 · 757 citations